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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: "'Help-Gnu-Emacs (help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)'" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Regexp for matching (defun lines
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 02:08:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DS7PR10MB52325F91C2BF8E19415B6B2CF3B22@DS7PR10MB5232.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lOZcOf2piVbC9z2cZPZMtwxC56DXghyyquSIUfNC5CPmof7Uyo6EbsEEOhJSzA_CvM2zKj19LEGUztkvGqZM_jdCI7VzllrA5e95sxkynKE=@protonmail.com>

> > > > (concat
> > > > "^\\s-("
> > > > (regexp-opt...)
> > > > t)
> > > > "\\s-+\\(\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)+\\)")
> > >
> > > I see that you use "\\sw". What is the advantage verses "[[:alnum:]-
> _]"
> >
> > No special advantage. You can include any other
> > chars you want, so you can pick up, e.g.,
> >
> > (defun foo!@$%^&*+={}/:42<>? ()
> >   (message "Hello"))
> >
> > Perfectly legitimate, and none of those chars
> > even require escaping.
> 
> Meaning that \\sw is superior to [[:alnum:]-_], right ?

No.

\\sw means word-char syntax.
[[:alnum:]-_] means alphanumeric- or symbol-char syntax.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-01  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-31 19:23 Regexp for matching (defun lines Heime
2024-07-31 19:59 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-07-31 20:14   ` Heime
2024-07-31 21:02     ` Drew Adams
2024-07-31 21:15       ` Heime
2024-08-01  2:11         ` Drew Adams
2024-07-31 21:29       ` Heime
2024-08-01  2:08         ` Drew Adams [this message]
2024-08-01  2:24           ` Heime
2024-08-01  3:34             ` Drew Adams
2024-08-01  4:15               ` Heime

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